Posted by
Tony Guinta on Friday, July 11, 2008 4:34:42 PM
Wouldn't it be easier to just let government take care of everything? Everything would be great -- no responsibility, no effort, no worries.
Government could provide all -- food, shelter, healthcare, public safety, free high-speed internet -- everything!
To those who haven't studied history, this seems like a great idea. Why wouldn't this work? Everybody just put all their money into the pot and Big G will divide it up fair and square. What they don't realize is that this has been tried over and over again and has failed. It's called socialism.
The ideals of socialism appear sound in theory, but history has shown that power corrupts. Unless people understand the reasons why socialism doesn't work, they'll keep resorting back to it. Thomas Jefferson warned "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground".
The problem is that in order to have government provide all, government must have power to control all. And this is where history has shown that the powerful soon become greedy and always cut a larger slice of the pie for themselves. After all, they deserve it, since they're providing all to the peasants.